Soft Rice
Zbigniew Brzezinski and Samantha Power aren't the only dangerously soft and muddled members of Barack Obama's foreign policy team. Obama has also tapped Susan Rice, who held a similar role in John Kerry's campaign and before that in Howard Dean's.
As Bulldog Pundit reminds us, during Bill Clinton's second term, Rice played a major role in the decision to refuse Sudan’s offer to hand over Bin Laden. According to Richard Miniter, author of Losing bin Laden, Rice persuaded Sandy Berger to turn Sudan down because she doubted its credibility and was offended by its human rights violations. But our ambassador to Sudan argued far more sensibly for calling Khartoum's "bluff." Mansoor Ijaz, who was involved in the negotiations with Sudan provides the same account.
No doubt, Rice will urge Obama (in the unlikely event he needs urging) to rush into talks with Iran and Syria notwithstanding any reservations about their credibility and human rights records, on the theory of "why not; how can it hurt?" But when offered the opportunity to take out the world's leading terrorist -- as opposed to appeasing rogue terrorist supporting states -- Rice drew the line.
